
Democrat: Public more comfortable with idea of national ID card
Civil liberties groups and even some die-hard supporters of the Democratic Party are raising the alarm over the Democrats' proposed immigration overhaul, which would see the creation of a national biometric ID card.
"If the biometric national ID card provision of the draft bill becomes law, every worker in America would have to be fingerprinted and a new federal bureaucracy - one that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars - would have to be created to issue cards," the ACLUsaid in a statement Thursday, following the release of Senate Democrat's 28-page proposal (PDF) for comprehensive immigration reform...
